REPRESENTATIVE MORGAN MEYER CONCLUDES SECOND SUCCESSFUL LEGISLATIVE SESSION
During the 85th Regular Legislative Session, 6,631 bills were filed in the House and Senate Chambers and 1,211 passed both chambers and were sent to the Governor’s desk. Governor Abbott vetoed 51 bills leaving 17% of all bills filed this legislative session becoming law.
Representative Morgan Meyer (R-Dallas) filed legislation on a broad range of topics from human trafficking, school safety, private property protection, government efficiency, school testing, designating a Fallen Law Enforcement Officers Day, and local firefighter retirement protections. Comparatively, at the conclusion of the session, Representative Meyer saw nearly 60% of his legislative agenda enacted into law.
“I was very pleased to see that we were able to move so many of our bills successfully through the legislative process, including those that will protect our children, improve government efficiency, strengthen our firefighter’s retirements, and honor our fallen law enforcement officers. Input from community members, business leaders, and parents was invaluable to our legislative success,” said Meyer.
A breakdown of the legislative agenda includes bills that protect children in school buildings used as polling places, new restrictions to keep sex offenders away from school premises, tougher penalties against teachers that engage in inappropriate relationships with students, stronger penalties for human traffickers, removing pension eligibility for elected officials convicted of certain crimes, civil liability for those who sell synthetic drugs to children, designating July 7th as Fallen Law Enforcement Officers Day, strengthening local firefighter’s retirements, protecting private property from government seizure, and repealing outdated and unused state boards and commissions.
As a whole, the Texas House committed to addressing the serious challenges presented by a rapidly changing economy and profound economic growth. The Legislature passed a balanced budget, increased funding for our public schools, increased funding for mental health treatment, improved the foster care system with community based foster care and strengthening kinship care, expanded border security operations, improved public school accountability in the A-F system, and passed significant ethics reforms.
Morgan Meyer is a state representative from Dallas, Texas. He serves on the House Public Education Committee and the House State Affairs Committee. He represents House District 108 in the Texas House of Representatives which encompasses Downtown Dallas, Uptown Dallas, East Dallas (including the M Streets and Lower Greenville) Preston Hollow, the City of University Park and the Town of Highland Park, Texas.
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